"The second edition of The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report has found that, in order to reach global #climate targets, governments must expand tree planting and the use of technologies to increase carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) by four times annually.
The researchers emphasized that carbon #emissions reductions will continue to be the main avenue to achieving net zero, but CDR will also be crucial."
"[2023] is the first year where this estimate has reached the 1.3C threshold. Our report also shows that human-caused warming has been increasing at a rate of 0.26C per decade.
This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas #emissions being close to an all-time high and a reduction in the cooling impacts of aerosols as society tackles deadly #AirPollution."
Laurence Tubiana 🗣️:"The richest 1% of people in the world are responsible for more GHG #emissions than the 66% at the other end of the scale, yet experience little of the vulnerability to climate shocks causing suffering & death, mainly among poorer people" https://buff.ly/3X8ijqZ
"#Australia’s greenhouse gas #emissions are rising and enormous #FossilFuel projects continue to be approved to meet domestic and international demand.
[In a 2023 survey] half of the Australians surveyed claimed that the impacts in our region have not been severe, with a third of people believing that the media exaggerates the influence of global warming."
New research from UCL & the International Institute for Sustainable Development suggests that there are now enough sustainable/green energy projects running or in development that no new fossil fuel capacity is required.
As current fossil fuel capacity now degrades/reduces, so green energy capacity can take its place.
This is not how the fossil fuel firms see it, but as emissions keep rising (up 1.1% last year) this must become a crucial pivot point!
Looks like global CO2 emissions finally peaked. Good. But no time to lose: onwards to a rapid descent!
From BloombergNEF via Justin Guay. #co2#emissions#ClimateChange
IEA analysis finds sales of #SUVs hit a new record in 2023, making up half of all new cars sold globally. Experts warn that the rising sales of the large, heavy ICE vehicles is pushing up carbon #emissionshttps://buff.ly/3Km7vhp
Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
The richest 0.1% in Britain emit 22 times more from transport than low earners & 12 times more than average. Income is directly linked to levels of mobility.
In the UK, transport is now the largest source of emissions.
"The #cement industry alone accounts for nearly eight percent of human-caused CO2 #emissions.
The Cambridge researchers approached the problem by looking at an industry that was already well established—steel recycling, which uses electric-powered furnaces to produce the alloy.
Instead of waste being produced, the end result was recycled cement ready for use in #concrete, bypassing the emissions-heavy process of superheating limestone in kilns."
" Bill that would make Vermont the first state to have a 'Climate Superfund' takes a key step forward
The #ClimateSuperfund Act directs the state treasurer to work with climate scientists to catalog the damage Vermont has seen due to #ClimateChange between 1995 and 2024 — and what it will cost to adapt to a warmer future with more volatile weather.
If the bill becomes law, #Vermont could start to seek damages in 2027."
"The #Vermont bill doesn’t outline the total amount it would seek from polluting companies.
Instead, it calls for the state treasurer to account for the costs Vermont has incurred because of #emissions from 1995 through 2024 — including future costs from those past emissions. That includes impacts from floods and heat waves, along with losses to biodiversity, safety, economic development and anything else the treasurer deems reasonable."
"The head of the IPCC has compared the rollout of carbon capture and storage (#CCS) to "trying to push water uphill," questioning a technology that the oil and gas industry has long touted as integral to net-zero emission plans.
The International Energy Agency has previously called for the oil and gas industry to let go of the "illusion" that carbon capture is a solution to climate change, pushing instead for energy majors to ramp up investments in clean energy."
"In 2023, total CO2 #emissions were about 37 billion metric tons. If we wanted to remove just this amount each year, to keep the carbon dioxide level from rising, it would require 764 gigawatts of power. It would probably take more than 1,000 nuclear power plants.
The takeaway is pretty clear: Any idea that we can maintain our current lifestyle and just suck the CO2 out of the air afterwards is a fantasy."